Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

Othon De La Roche

It seems likely, though we don’t know exactly when, Othon De La Roche, the French Duke of Athens, having acquired the shroud in Constantinople in 1204 or possibly after it arrived in Athens, sent the cloth to his home, the chateau de Ray in the Haute-Saone near Besançon. This was sometime between 1206 and 1219. We know very little about it during the years that it was there except that it was kept in the chateau de Ray and sometimes displayed at the cathedral church of St. Etienne.